TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring analytical trustworthiness and the process of reaching consensus in interpretative phenomenological analysis
T2 - lost in transcription
AU - Rodham, K.
AU - Fox, F.
AU - Doran, N.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Typically authors explain how they conduct interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), but fail to explain how they ensured that their analytical process was trustworthy. For example, a minority mention that they ‘reached consensus’ after having engaged in a shared analysis of the data, but do not explain how they did so. In this article, we report on our experience of engaging in a shared analysis and aim to stimulate discussion about the process of ensuring the trustworthiness of one’s data when employing IPA. Our key recommendation is that all researchers involved in analysis should listen to the audio recordings; failure to do so increases the potential for researchers to superimpose their own presuppositions or interpretative bias onto the data. We also suggest that audio recordings should be kept for a longer duration in case secondary analysis is required. We finish our article with a series of tips developed from our experience of shared analysis.
AB - Typically authors explain how they conduct interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), but fail to explain how they ensured that their analytical process was trustworthy. For example, a minority mention that they ‘reached consensus’ after having engaged in a shared analysis of the data, but do not explain how they did so. In this article, we report on our experience of engaging in a shared analysis and aim to stimulate discussion about the process of ensuring the trustworthiness of one’s data when employing IPA. Our key recommendation is that all researchers involved in analysis should listen to the audio recordings; failure to do so increases the potential for researchers to superimpose their own presuppositions or interpretative bias onto the data. We also suggest that audio recordings should be kept for a longer duration in case secondary analysis is required. We finish our article with a series of tips developed from our experience of shared analysis.
KW - consensus
KW - interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
KW - qualitative analysis
KW - research evaluation
KW - trustworthiness
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84920196598&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13645579.2013.852368
DO - 10.1080/13645579.2013.852368
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:84920196598
VL - 18
SP - 59
EP - 71
JO - International Journal of Social Research Methodology
JF - International Journal of Social Research Methodology
SN - 1364-5579
IS - 1
ER -